[Osmf-talk] Hiring help for OSMF administrative tasks

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

Hi,

It could be a paid full-time internship position (fr. un stage; ger. ein 
Praktikum) for an university graduate, with maximum duration of say 12 
months. A lot of university graduates have difficulty finding first job, 
paid, or even unpaid internship.

Or a paid full-time post-retirement or near-retirement employment. By 
the way, I read recently of a statistical research which demonstrates 
that, contrary to expectations, advanced-age employees are absent from 
work due to sickness less than young ones.

I would also suggest not only administrative help, but multi-tasking, 
including editing map, answering forum questions, community-organizing, 
etc. If a candidate is well selected, this could be possible. The 
workplace, perhaps, could be rented on a budget at the ImpactHub 
premises [1]<http://www.impacthub.net/>. There is also nowadays 
technology which allows to work via telecommuting from a public library. 
For example, silent mouse Nexus SM-8500 (no clicking sound) [2], etc.

I would also suggest a two - three months probation period, a control of 
presence at a workplace, a quality and quantity control of work results.

[1] http://www.impacthub.net/
[2] http://nexustek.us/mice/sm-8500

Best regards,
Oleksiy

On 10.03.2015 22:15, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     one of the things that came out of the board meeting in Berlin last
> month was that we decided to look into hiring part-time administrative
> help to take some of the day-to-day workload off of the shoulders of
> board members and other volunteers.
>
> I am writing to ask your opinion of this idea (what tasks would you like
> to see OSMF do more of, and where an administrative assistant could
> help), but even more so to ask for your experience: Are you involved
> with an organisation similar to OSMF (all volunteer work, budget in the
> £100k range) who pay for a part-time administrative assistant, and how
> do things work out for them? What works, and what doesn't, etc?
>
> You can reply to this message in public or send me email if you'd rather
> offer your advice in private. Also, if you should be in a position where
> you could actually help the OSMF plan and execute this (perhaps because
> you're working in the HR field), please do write and we'll gladly accept
> your help.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>

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